Fine Books News: Recent
The New York Public Library has reopened its newly renovated 125th Street branch which has been…
A range of items from MGM's movie The Wizard of Oz including scripts, contracts, and memorabilia…
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A new exhibition on view at The Grolier Club next month will be part conceptual art installation and part bibliophilic entertainment, featuring a collection of books that do not really exist. On view from December 5 through February 15, 2025, Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive…
A rare original pen and ink drawing of Babar in a presentation copy of Le Voyage de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff is among the highlights of Bonhams’ Fine Books and Manuscripts sale on November 20 in London.
The Gordon Lightfoot Estate Collection Music Memorabilia sale held by Heritage Auctions on November 17 will celebrate the legacy of the popular Canadian singer-songwriter who died last year.
Highlights of Potter & Potter Auctions' fall Vintage Poster sale include:Fly to Britain by Clipper / Pan American World AirwaysMark Von Arnburg's 1948 lithograph depicting the Queen’s guard and royal carriage drawn by a team of horses, escorted by soldiers in red, men on horseback with Big Ben…
San Francisco Center for the Book is presenting the first-ever survey of artist and graphic designer David King’s small press publications, zines, ephemera, and early design projects in its new exhibition David King Publications 1977–2019.
A hand-annotated map of the Bay of Pigs invasion signed by Fidel Castro is among the highlights of RR Auction's November Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale which also pays tribute to President John F. Kennedy.
Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on this week:
This week's entry appears in the Fine Books and Manuscripts auction running from this week until November 12 at Bonhams which features an E. H. Shepard presentation copy of When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne.
The recent Bonhams auction Elegance of the Eternal: The Collection of Anne Rice featured more than 200 objects from the home and personal library of the prolific supernatural and Gothic historical fiction writer.
Freeman’s | Hindman’s Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana auction later this month features around 350 lots of works of Americana and Natural History.